Crying Suns, a new space roguelike with a gradually unfolding story, has smashed its Kickstarter goal, and has to date raised nearly double the €25,000 it initially asked for. It’s no wonder: it looks excellent, and aims to blend the tight resource management and decision making of FTL with more freeform exploration, putting a bigger emphasis on story than FTL did. They include dialogue with Crying Suns’ many factions and encounters with enemies, and they’ll be packed with risky choices to make.

Highly rated 2D action RPG CrossCode will leave Early Access in September, Radical Fish Games has announced. If you haven’t heard of it before then—judging by its user ratings on Steam —you should probably get to know it. It was also picked out as one of Steam’s top-rated, least-played games last year , so it probably deserves a little more love. It combines 16-bit SNES-style visuals with a more modern physics system, fast combat and puzzle solving. There’s plenty of loot to find and sci-fi dung

You can now play a decent chunk of Middle-earth: Shadow of War for free thanks to a new demo released by Monolith Productions. It’ll let you play through all the missions in the Núrn region, in which you build an army of orcs and kill off warchiefs. Once you’ve amassed a strong force, you can march to the area’s massive stronghold for a full-on fortress assault complete with siege machines. It’s a pattern that repeats throughout the game, so the demo will give you a good idea of whether you coul

Microstutter most often occurs when the rate of new frames doesn’t quite match up to your monitor’s refresh rate and vsync is enabled. How do you fix microstutter? So here’s the easy fix for microstutter: a variable refresh monitor. Opinions on whether a smooth 30fps is better than 60fps with microstutter vary, so give it a shot. Ultimately, there’s no single guaranteed fix to every cause of microstutter.

The European Speedrunner Assembly’s charity speedrunning marathons might not be as big as Games Done Quick’s, but they’re still worth a watch. The latest, ESA Summer 2018, kicked off yesterday and will run for a full week, finishing in the early hours of Saturday July 29. Stream 1 will be constant, while Stream 2 will be taking the occasional break overnight. I’m looking forward to the Amnesia: The Dark Descent run on Stream 1 later today. Handily, the organisers are making individual runs avail

Double Fine remastered Lucas Arts’ classic adventure game Day of the Tentacle in 2016—and did a very good job—but it didn’t stop players longing for a sequel. While an official follow-up may forever remain a dream, a fan-made sequel just became very real by releasing its first chunk to download for free. Called Return of the Tentacle – Prologue, it’s the first part of a story that sees Bernard, Laverne and Hoagie return to Dr. Fred’s lab to, once again, save the world from the evil Purple Tentac

Twitch has announced the free games that subscribers to its Prime service will get on August 1, and they include Jotun: Valhalla Edition, Death Squared and Antihero (pictured above). Death Squared isn’t half-bad, either—it’s a clever co-op puzzler that made it onto our list of the best local multiplayer games on PC. The last game for Prime subscribers will be charming mining platformer SteamWorld Dig, part of the “series without a genre”, as Austin described here. Twitch Prime comes packaged wit

The good news is that players who’ve bought the Early Access version of Ion Maiden, the retro shooter being made in the same engine as Duke Nukem 3D, will gain access to a forthcoming multiplayer beta. Developers Voidpoint are calling the multiplayer “classic” and “fast-paced” though what specific modes it will have has not been announced. You can try Ion Maiden’s single-player in the Early Access version, both Queen of the Hill mode and a shareware-style chunk of its campaign. Alex Wiltshire th

The mod that most interested me is Photomode, created by SkacikPL (who you may know as the modder responsible for The Witcher 3’s first-person mode). Before installing Photomode you’ll need to grab the Vermintide Mod Framework. With that placed at the top of your mod load order you’ll be able to access a new menu by pressing F4 that enables various options relating to any mod you’ve got. Pressing F9 lets you fly out of your body, and automatically pauses the action if you’re playing solo (and yo

Overwatch’s Reaper is getting his Hellfire shotgun Nerfed. Blizzard has teamed up with Hasbro to create a Nerf gun replica of of the iconic shotgun. The Nerf Rival Overwatch Reaper Wight Edition blaster—which holds eight Nerf Rival rounds—will be a fully-functional Nerf gun complete with spring-action mechanism, a ready indicator, and a safety lock. If you’ve still yet to give it a go, Overwatch is free for everyone this weekend. The free weekend will include all Overwatch heroes and 18 maps in

New details about Capcom’s Resident Evil 2 remake were revealed at San Diego Comic-Con yesterday. Twitterer Ateliermatangi was at the Resident Evil panel and captured a range of concept and environmental art, as well as sharing snippets of game producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi’s presentation, in which he explained why the remake of Resident Evil 2 came to fruition due to “overwhelming fan demand”, and how the team used the original key art for inspiration whilst ensuring the remake has its own iden

We’ve also thrown in some answers from subscribers to the PC Gamer Club membership program via our exclusive Discord channel. Find out more about the PC Gamer Club here. It was okay, but I realised after booting it up that what I’d really wanted was more Oblivion. Some choices from the PC Gamer ClubThanks to those who contributed this week via the PC Gamer Club Discord. I was so excited I could not wait to spread the word and to eventually get the play the game.

Telltale has revealed the first fifteen minutes of Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season . Now a “fierce and capable survivor”, Clementine has reached the final chapter in her journey. In this gripping and emotional final season, you will define your relationships, fight the undead, and determine how Clementine’s story ends.” Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season’s first episode is out August 14, 2018 on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Pre-orders can secure the complete season w

The third episode of 2016’s Hitman is available to try for free, but hurry—it’s one of those “limited time only” things. You can grab the full Hitman: Summer Pack episode now from Steam and get access to the full content—including the campaign mission, Escalation Contracts, 20 levels of location mastery and 120+ challenges (although not any Bonus Episode content)—for the next ten days. “As with any Hitman level, Marrakesh promises players the lure of voyeurism and the thrill of infiltration and

Farming Simulator 19 will release on November 20, 2018. Confirmation came via Farming Simulator’s official Twitter account, which asserts you’ll be able to “farm like never before in the deepest, most complete farming simulator ever”. Farming Simulator 19 releases for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on November 20!Farm like never before in the deepest, most complete farming simulator ever. Farming Simulator 17’s Platinum Edition added pigs , and Joe was delighted to find out they’re coming to Far

I looked at the Steam Top Sellers list yesterday morning and noticed that No Man’s Sky was sitting at number 12. Discord reacting to our trailer ❤️❤️❤️(contains a swear word or two) pic.twitter.com/OI9ZhTYXYUJuly 18, 2018The hype and excitement for No Man’s Sky is back! There are also plenty of players for whom the hype has never really subsided: lots of people who enjoyed No Man’s Sky from day one and have continued to play it since its release in 2016. Deciding No Man’s Sky was everything we w

In the immediate future, we’ll be playing New California this year, which features 12 endings and thousands of lines of dialogue. Joe Donnelly: “Let’s get to the disco”Is what The Black Madonna says after laying flat a San Andreas copper. Chris Livingston: The more you knowIt’s been a week of stunning revelations here at PC Gamer. The high is that there were actually a lot of great PC deals worth your money, if you were in the market. Clearly the appetite is there for more regular Fallout games.

“It was created to address problems with the Leviathan raid in Destiny 2, specifically the over-reliance on voice communication. It allows deaf Destiny raiders to send visual callouts using simple buttons and easy-to-use templates. We will continue to show the LFG community out there that we, deaf players, can play JasonBAM Optical Raiders also have big goals for the future. We will continue to strive to do our best and show the LFG community out there that we, deaf players, can play, and that t

Spec Ops and Dreanought developer Yager Development is working on a new PvEvP shooter called The Cycle, a game it describes as a “competitive quester.” “The planet’s full of exotic materials that the major galactic factions pay serious credits for,” Yager explained. “When the Cycle breaks, that’s your window to get down there and get to work. It sounds like a fairly standard loot-shooter, but Yager is pushing the “strong focus on emergent social dynamics” as the big hook. “These social dynamics

Update: Multiple players have confirmed that while the secret Io mission doesn’t reward Black Spindle, per se, completing it does get you a revamped version of the Exotic sniper called Whisper of the Worm. Destiny YouTuber Indica received what may be the world’s first Whisper just minutes ago:Just got Black Spindle! One thing we do know is that Black Spindle is back. Original story:Earlier today, Destiny 2 players found a secret, timed, 380-Power mission called “The Whisper,” which is attached t